Prof
Braga Born
in Bologna - Italy - april 8 1953
Graduated
in Chemistry in 1977
1977-1980
fellowship from the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
1980
-1981 RSC fellowship at North London University
1981-1987
Research assistant Faculty of Sciences, University of Bologna
Present
post: Professor of
General
and Inorganic Chemistry
Faculty
of Sciences, University of Bologna
Director of the Collegio Superiore, University of Bologna
Scientific Editor of CrystEngComm and member of the advisory board of Chem Comm
Awards
:
Raffaello
Nasini Prize from the Inorganic Chemistry Division of the Italian Society
of Chemistry in 1988 for his studies of the factors controlling molecular structure
and fluxional behaviours.
FEDERCHIMICA
Prize for 1995 for his research on the intermolecular interactions in organometallic
systems.
Current research interests : Crystal engineering, supramolecular interactions, materials chemistry, phase transitions, polymorphism of inorganic, organic and organometallic systems, polymorphism of drugs, static and dynamic structure of molecules in the solid state, evaluation and utilization of supramolecular interactions in crystalline materials, engineering of molecular and ionic (organic-organometallic-inorganic) crystalline materials, solvent free reactions between solids and between solid and gases
Publication
record: Dario Braga research activity is witnessed by ca. 300
papers on international journals and by a number review articles and contributions
to scientific books
Dario
Braga has delivered about 140 lectures at International Schools, Conferences,
Workshops, and Departimental Seminars
Other
Awards:
*
Two fellowships of Fondazione Donegani attributed by the Accademia Nazionale
dei Lincei.
*
S.E.R.C. fellowship at the University of North London and Chemical Laboratory,
University of
Cambridge.
(1980-1981)
*
NATO travel grant in collaboration with Professor B. F. G. Johnson (1990-1997)
*
Italy -Portugal JNICT-CNR bilateral with Professor M. J. Calhorda University
of Lisbon (1992-1998)
*
Fellowship of the Conferenza dei Rettori delle Universita' italiane with
Dr. H. Wadepohl
University
of Heidelberg (1993-1995), Professor D. Walther (Jena, 1996-1998), Professor
Christof
Elschenbroich
(Marburg, 1999, 2000)
*
Exchange project between Italy and Spain - Dr. F. Lahoz (Accion Concertada)
(1994-1995)
*
CIBA-Geigy Senior Fellowship with Trinity College (Dublin, Dr. S. Draper)
(1995-1996)
·
Royal Society of Chemistry International Author Grant (1997) Prof. Orpen
- Bristol
·
Galileo Exchange Fellowship (1998) with Professor M. W. Hosseini (Strasbourg)
·
CRUI - British Council bilateral project (Cambridge, Dr. E. Marseglia,
1996)
Member
of the Review Committee "Chemistry" at the ESRF of Grenoble (1996-1997)
Member
of the Advisory Board of Dalton Trans. (1993-1997)
Member
of the Advisory Board of Chem. Commun. (1993 - )
Member
of the Editorial Board of Polyhedron (1998 - )
Member
of the Editorial Boards of J. Chem. Crystallogr., and Cryst. Eng. (1999
- )
Member
of the Dalton Council of the Royal Society of Chemistry
and
of the Standing Committee on Meetings
Member
of the Research Observatory of the University of Bologna and of the
Board
of Tutors of the Collegio Universitario Superiore
Scientific Editor of CrystEngComm
Appointed
by the President of the Federative Republic of Brazil
to
the National Order of Scientific Merit of Brazil (1999)
Embassy
of Brasil in Rome 1999
The
Ambassador
"Two
roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by,
and
that has made all the difference." R.Frost, 1920.
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